The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25

| Cured meats This is growing indus
| try In Utah. in which it is difficult 10
secure figures; but from considerable
| data at hand here is certainly produced
! $500 coo Y nth. involving lutte capital,
| as rhe product is mostly home cured.
| p. hitting and pub s ing Including
! BOOK binding ano PAGER ruling, these
involve. a capital of $4,000 employing
| 1877 persons, and turning out Sab eco
worth OF wors.
A'rGtFd i5Itsrs. The several concerns
engaged in this il duStry require a
. capital of $40 GOO giving employment to
| i25 han's be Idanha water of Soda
| Springs. Idaho, IS Utah enterprise,
! and of this alsue some 8 00U bottles per
| day are packed in the busy season, and
distributed throughout the nited
States The sggr- ga value is $3.50 O. 0
annually.
Harness and saddJery This is an i'm
portant industry Of Utah, having in
vested capital of $2OO,OI0, employing 1875
skilled workman. and producing $3.50,
UUO
Crackers and contscti1nc y.-Invcsted
capitsl. SIS 600, mum 1er a. employees
las; value Of product $252 600.
Brac, and pottery here are some
sPventy-tye firms eDsa 2ed N these In
ductrles. employing $l23 600 capital, go
! hands. and turning cut $434 Geo worth
of manu.ac ured material.
| Piper a large paper-mill near this
| CRY, employing twenty tve hands pro
| 3uces annually about $40 600 worth Of
| paper. OF this the greater part is prin;
uaper, such as is used for nrwsp ipers,
and nearly al OF the publications. in
| Utah could be made On the product of
| this mill. They also manufacture ma
mia wrapping of various Weights ard
qualities, bro En wrapping and bu cher5'
straw pal er. Thew have filed some
large cont acts for fine white and toned
book papsrs. aud make soma lxtie cover
aud fat papers. The buildings are sit
uated at the mouth of Big Cottonwood
| canyon, near splendid spring OF
| crystal water, and are solidly cou-
! 5tructed OF granite. Some 500 600 is
| invested in the enterprise.
| Butter and cheeSe.-Of these important
staples it is estimated that we manu-
facture $500 900 worth Of butter and
81 0 eco worth OF che ese.
| Timber interests From reports avail
| able, fad there are Is 600 coo feet of
| lumber cut in the Territory, which, at
al average price of $25 per thousand
feet, realizes 1876 100. In addition to
this there is cut for fences, mining tim
aer5, and fuel additional timber to the
| value SI25 600 annually.
Salt. some 10000 tons of salt are
annually sold, al an average price OF 50
for crude coarse and 50 for refined
table. The coarse salt. as taken from
the ey pOrating ponds on the shores OF
the Great Salt Lake, is suitable for the
chloridlZlng of ores, and it is IN this
form that the greater part of the salt is
exported. This industry produces a
net revenue to the Territory of some
$3.50 600 per annum, and furnishes en-
ployment to $50 men.
iSUndry Indus Ties.-ln addition to the
activities itemiZ above. there are car
rIed on throughout the Territory the
manufacture of vinegar, pickles, glue,
paints. charcoal, lime cements, brooms,
brushes. show cases, DO ties. baskets,
blasting powder. picture-frames, plaster
of Paris, has aud caps, millinery,
jewelry, wire work and cigars. There
are also chemical works, canneries.
marble works and concerns for the
packing of fresh fruits, weaving of
carpets, engraving and the putting up
of patent medicines. These sundry in-
dustries have total capital OF 1921 $50,
EN- pioy 563 persons, and turn out pro-
ducts valued at 1888 500.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
The singularly high qualities Of our
agricultural products having already
forced themselves upon the notice of
the country, feel called upon to treat
them in such detail that shey will be
more fully understood, hoping thereby
to create fuller appreciation of their
merits and promote their expectation.
In this labor ! feel q constant pleasure
in the comparison which our products
bear towards those of other regions.
The conviction has forced itself upon
me that there is scarcely any agri-
cultural product Of III temperate zone
which will not grow to perfection here.
The varied contour of our Territory is
such that at some places, if not at 9TH
ers, each of all the. different varieties
will thrive which go to support an agri-
cultural community. The soil seems
to be rich in the phosphates that fertil-
ize vegetation, while the system of ir-
rIgation practlced here renders the
farmer less subject to the caprice of
weather than elsewhere. As a result
the products per acre of some crops is
simply astonishing, while qualities
rank just as high 1t would seem as if
the cultivation of given thing in Utah
produces at once q high type suitable
and in demand forever after in other
districts for seed purposes; as. for in
stance, plant lucerne seEd from Cali
fornia on Utan s Ill. and the product is
better seed which California is de-
sirOus of procuring for planting her
self. With positive proof of these facts,
1t is difficult to repress some degree of
enthusiasm in treating on these sub
jects. while they inspire confidence in
the future of our exports.
WheGt.-Fair Utah wheat ranks in
the east with the best No. 2 red, which
Is the highest grade that appears IN
most of the eastern markets. Our
choicest qualities are unique product,
with scarcely an equal IN America.
Last year some 200 600 bushels were ex-
ported, our wheat going west, as we'll as
to Colorado and Kansas City. Titan
wheat has brighter, larger kernel than
that of the east, and though no hand
somer than that of California, it is
hrmer, and its nutriment more coneen-
trated. AS high as sixty bushels per